21.   Medical ethics permit doctors to give patients doses of pain drugs that might shorten their lives if the intent is to relieve pain and not to hasten death.

22.   Palliative care alleviates pain and distress, but is not meant to hasten death or cure disease.

23.   Rachel Robinson was asked if she thought the stress of blazing trails against racism had hastened the death of these two pioneers.

24.   Rothstein ruled that mentally competent, terminally ill adults may choose to hasten their deaths by taking a lethal dose of physician-prescribed drugs.

25.   She asks her physician to hasten her death.

26.   She said the proposal would discourage doctors from prescribing painkillers and other medicines that could, in some cases, be used to hasten death.

27.   Soon hunger will also set in, hastening the death of the weak and sickly.

28.   Taken together, all these things would have weakened him further and hastened his death.

29.   The appeals courts ruled that a person terminally ill and mentally competent has a constitutional right to receive lethal drugs from a doctor to hasten death.

30.   The case was brought by a Compassion in Dying, a Seattle organization that provides counseling and assistance to terminally ill people who want to hasten their deaths.